I'm telling you, nothing says "Fighting The Culture Of Dependency" quite like raising a couple of hundred thou' from a casino operator. Ever been to Tunica, Paul? Ever seen the poor folks, pumping quarters into the slots for eight hours a day? Believe me, they're more the victims of a culture of dependency than, say, you were, when I was helping to send you to college with my tax dollars. At this point, really, we're just haggling about the price.

said last night, about the "Put Yáll in chains"". My husband tried to tell me that the use of Yáll is how I can tell for certain that Biden was using a double entendre. When I use Yáll I've been pretty certain that the only thing I have going on is being lazy folksy. Something Biden has been good at in the past :)

I can't wait to tell him when he gets home that heard the dog whistle cuz he's a DAWG! He didn't really hear the whistle though, he heard the outrage and bought it.

I thought I heard it on NPR this morning and it did not scream out to me as being a real southern style y'all. More like a 'you all'. Of course if he were from the midwest it would have been 'you guys'!

... WAS actually considered part of the South, prior to the U.S. Civil War, since it's below the Mason-Dixon Line.

Delaware was one of the four slave states that remained in the Union when the other eleven seceded -- the other three being Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. Further, it was the only one of those four which actually did so voluntarily, since its legislature formally voted to kill the secession ordinance proposed by that state's pro-Confederacy lawmakers on January 3, 1861.

So, the use of the regional term "you all" isn't really all that much of a stretch for Joe Biden.

still sounds like a few guys in the garage using tin cans and some string. At least in the first ten minutes, at which time I bailed out of frustration. Got quite a ways to go before you reach NPR's gold standard level for audio production.

heat wave we've been experiencing out here in SoCal perhaps distorting the sound waves. I've noticed for instance our cable system has been acting up lately.

No complaints about the able hosts or the content. Though it would be nice if DKRadio could soon carve out another hour for, say, a female host of liberal sensibility. With this and the NBC coverage of the Olympics I've been inundated with all-male hosts lately and it's beginning to bother me.

the superficial type of analysis to Jesse's style of say whatever comes into your head. Of course the GOP and its nominees are outrageous and absolutely wrong. What else is new. Tell us why and what to do about it.

and a suspension of his CC. After all this BS from folks about how responsible (and savior-like) CC folks are, I certainly would hope they secure their guns better. Could you imagine sitting next to this guy? Or, if it was another crowded premiere night? I mean it was just DUMB LUCK the bullet hit him, as we all know, the floor ain't such a good aim . . . and he should be thankful there wasn't another CC guy in the audience with a trigger happy shoot the bad guy bad a** mentality, . . .

Just yesterday a house blew up in my neighborhood, literally 5-6 blocks away. An infant died and 17 people injured. Horrible. They think it was the propane tanks but they're still investigating. Point being, by the grace of god we all go. Yeah, it would be cool if the world wasn't populated by so many inconsiderate arseholes, but I really don't think giving the tyrannical arseholes more weapons is gonna get us anywhere. And we can always take heart that the considerate still vastly outnumber the inconsiderate...its just that the inconsiderate get all the press.

was shot. If someone else was shot, not so much. And it's not dumb luck to knowingly carry a CW not properly secured.

Seems to me he should have to deal with the consequences of his actions (beyond the self-inflicted wound) already on the books, no new weapons there. If he had shot someone else in the a**, what would those have been? (btw, isn't there a safety on a gun to prevent it going off when it hits the floor?) After all, he still accidentally shot someone through his recklessness.

on the guy doing a reckless, stupid thing...but we must always take care not to respond too recklessly, stupidly, or harshly.

Easy on the punitive is all I'm saying...I'm sure the guy ain't a monster, he's got a family, somebody who loves him. Shooting himself and forever being known as the butthead who shot himself strapped at the movies works for me.

in the same situation, we should do nothing because somebody loves him and it was a totally preventable accident?

I didn't say to lock him up and throw away the key, but at the very least I would expect to see a decent fine and suspension of his CC permit. Think of it like a bad driver (that's not too harsh for you is it?) at the least. Gun school again please, until he at least learns HOW to CARRY a gun.

Not many people will forever know him for this, so that shouldn't be much of a burden on the poor man. Burress fame status he ain't ;)

a fine and loss of permit. I did say if he shot somebody other than himself it would be a different story.

He will be forever known in his circles as the moron who shot himself in the arse on movie night. Sh*t if he was my friend he would never ever hear the end of it, a ball-busting extravaganza till the end of days!

maybe this wouldn't happen because he would've thought twice before carrying a firearm to a movie theater. If you're gonna be careless with a firearm you deserved to be punished IMO. Karma easily could've found another target.

We're on the same page with the disturbing pistol packin' cowboy trend...but we may part ways with the criminal justice ringer being any kind of solution. We'll have a prison population at critical mass, if we aren't already at critical mass because of the criminal justice "solutions" to the problem of drug addiction.

is linking and reposting of outright lies. Not opinions, verifiable lies.

From the golden oldies about birth certificates to newer posts about Obama filing suit to stop the military from voting, there is nothing you can say or point to that will have any positive effect. Evan worse, the theme seems to be that facts are part of the liberal Nazi lie, and citing sources is proof that the lie is actually the truth.

For example, some of the farmers I know keep posting links to how the House passed the 2012 Farm Bill, but Reid won't let the Senate vote on it. I commented that it's the other way around; that the Senate passed it back in June; and it's the House that hasn't passed it. I provided a couple links to back up the statement, even one to Fox news (thinking they'd find that credible).

The response: a link to the g.ate.way.pun.dit

Of course, the liberal media will completely ignore this latest gaffe from President Boy Genius. Obama blasted Paul Ryan for not passing a farm bill to help suffering farmers in Iowa. Um... Paul Ryan and House Republicans passed the farm bill two weeks ago. But, since when did facts matter?

It never ceases to amaze me how willfully people can cling to these myths and lies; I guess it's more important to maintain one's dislike for a particular party or candidate than it is to focus on the policies at stake. If they acknowledge that the Senate did pass the Farm Bill, does that equate in their minds to approving of the Democrats who got it to the floor and passed? Don't they want it to pass?

* Unless, of course, the gov't speaker is a member of the GOP. Then it's patriotic gospel, and questioning the validity of it is blasphemy.

So, if Obama says that the House hasn't passed the 2012 farm bill, then of course they actually have. He is the head of the gov't (thanks to ACORN), therefore, he's lying.

And when Boehner says that Obama needs to accept personal responsibility for the record drought, well, just look out the window - you can see for yourself there's a drought. Therefore, Boehner is telling the truth. And thanks for burning up the crops, Obama, you big meanie.

to provide a link to a roll call vote or anything else that disproves their story. These people often refuse to use the links.

I've noticed some right-wing emails will claim their story is verified by Snopes but they never provide a link. The email gets recirculated with the claim that Snopes verified up front.

These people have no interest whatever in factual information. They're frustrated and can't really explain the world around them so they've staked out their own world and want nothing to interfere with that fantasy world.

When you correct them with irrefutable fact they get angry. I do it now just to see how pi$$ed off they can become.

in order for me to respect them as human beings. And some of my views aren't exactly bleeding heart liberal. But wow, when I say that America must have affordable healthcare and we must challenge ourselves to get beyond race and sexual orientation and we must end the welfare to the filthy rich......and then my candidate is smoking the electoral votes, I will be throttled. Too God damn bad though huh? That's what I say.

growing up in a rural area. They're not stereotypical "I got mine so bugger off" right-wingers - they'd show up without a complaint to get your crop out if you needed help - but they have a serious disconnect in seeing the difference between say, food stamps and farm subsidies.

They'll tell you that they earned that fat subsidy check by not growing corn this year. But poor families getting food stamps, they're all just lazy and don't deserve anything.

And I try not to fight with them - it's too much like the Monty Python "Argument Clinic" sketch.

...some Romney putz was insisting that Obama was dragging them into the mud. And Savannah didn't even bother to mention that one can't be dragged into the mud, it's a purposeful action that takes a lot of planning.

Funniest - well, it's not actually "funny" - clip I saw was the one where Romney was whipping up the crowd by saying that Obama was going to end Medicare as we know it.

I know that pols are pols and do what they do, but it takes some kind of chutzpah-on-steroids to look people in the eye and make that accusation when your own running mate has a plan that everyone can see actually does end it.

But maybe the "people" in the crowd weren't people, but alien beings from the same Planet Insane that Romney's from, and that explains their goggle-eyed enthusiasm. Which makes me wonder...are we sure George Romney didn't find Mitt in a cornfield somewhere?

that George Romney was a man of his times. The center was New Deal activist government and Republicans couldn't get elected to statewide office in Michigan in those days unless they were quite moderate or even liberal. In the 6 years Romney was Governor of Michigan all other statewide elected officials were Democrats.

But Mitt was raised in an elitist household. When the public was less aware of more obscure political acts George Romney could be quite Conservative. Before he was governor he was the vice president of the Michigan Constitutional convention which wrote a document that forbade graduated taxes. That's been a problem in regards to state revenue ever since.

Of Obama saying this or that. I haven't watched any of them because that isn't the point, and if you have a point to make...make it. I don't need to sit here all day and watch your videos searching for what you are trying to say.

Then there's my husband's PE teacher best friend since childhood from Michigan. I honestly don't know what's wrong with that guy other than Michigan looks likes it is swinging true blue this go around and it's my fault. He's a tea bagger and he's a teacher, how does that work? Oh yeah....he's a PE teacher. Nobody ever wasted my time in high school like some PE teacher who had to teach the easiest class that the faculty could find for him. He is also one of my facebook rocket science friends who doesn't understand that the U.S. military is a socialist subculture. Who do they give teaching certificates to these days? Josh knows more about political science than a Michigan PE teacher.

My old roommate too is losing his mind just a tad, and people voted for him :) They'd probably still vote for him, it is Wyoming. He's smart though. He probably has his tantrums hidden from everyone else on his facebook. He's just tantruming at the Libs, and if anyone finds out, Wyoming generally likes that at this time :)

Though the Baskin-Robbins the Obamas visited has been replaced with a Subway sandwich shop, there is a different Baskin-Robbins a few doors down in the same shopping center. Some suggested that the site could become a popular spot for first dates and even marriage proposals.

But things are a lot different today than they were back in 1989.

Fifteen-year-old Justen Jackson, a ninth-grader at Hyde Park Academy, said it would be hard to find a girl who would be impressed with a first date at an ice cream shop.

"It's nice, but I wouldn't bring anyone here on a first date," Justen said. "They're going to want to go somewhere better than Subway or Baskin-Robbins."

should expect their sudden disappearance from their job to be reported. Goes with the territory. And that's as it should be. If I were one of his constituents I'd want to know why he's been absent from his job.

My elder sister, who lives in France, is bipolar. At age 40, she gave birth to her son and fell into a rather severe bout of postpartum depression, which led her doctors to search for the reason why. (This is why I like French medicine -- French doctors look for reasons, and not excuses.)

Prior to her diagnosis, most people -- including, sorry to say, many of us in her own family -- tended to chalk up her extreme mood swings to her being "flaky" and "unstable," because most of her doctors in the 1960s and '70s simply didn't know a lot about cause and effect of mental illness. Now we know definitively that her mood swings have a physical origin, and she's since been successfully treated for it and she no longer suffers from those manic swings in mood and behavior.

There shouldn't be a stigma to being bipolar, but there most definitely is. And unfortunately, the Jackson family just inadvertantly reinforced it with all the secrecy. That said, I wish the congressman and his family nothing but my best wishes as they deal with this problem. I hope to see him back soon.

...I always though Giffords should have stepped down after the incident. Politicians serve a real purpose and when they are incapacitated, they should resign immediately. It's a real injustice for the people they represent.

...people think the poorest of the poor should only get enough to keep from dying and even then, some think that's too much. From booze to cell phones to apparently sweets, all deemed luxury goods. From what I understand they are fairly restrictive, I actually surprised she was taking them or even allowed to. I don't think she's taking any sort of stand, pretty sure she doing what the law requires.

But this does pretty much sum up the rights view of the poor, "They don't even deserve a slice of the American pie". And the pie makers agrees.

I wouldn't worry about it too much, like the cake maker, their customer base is not republicans, it's liberals, and her stand is noble in certain circles, people who use farmers markets aren't likely to agree.

I think this is all emulating from Chik-fil-A. Got all the religious bafoons thinking more deeply.

Last week I was in a 7-11, and noticed three young kids running around and buying sodas and candy and other stuff, the oldest was maybe 8 y/o. It was kind of surprising to me that such young kids were alone in the store w/o adult supervision.

After a while one of the kids went to the counter and yelled to her sister who was in the back of the store to "bring the card." I was next in line and saw that "the card" was an EBT card.

I made my purchase and when I left the store found that the kids' vehicle was parked next to mine.

The three kids were getting into a beautiful late-model king-cab pickup truck with a nice set of Ping golf clubs, several new-looking kid's bicycles in the back along with some other nice/new-looking kid's play stuff, and in the front seats were a man and woman who seemed to be the kids' parents.

Now, there certainly could be a good reason for all of this, perhaps the male owned the truck and he was the mother's brother, such that the mom was qualified for EBT although her brother was not and he was just taking them out for a day at the park, or something like that, but still, such things make you wonder sometimes...

are very much eligible EBT purchases here in CA. The "late model" truck was a Ford and looked to be a 2009 or 2010, it had the beefy grill surrounds, but, no, definitely not EGT eligible. I know you don't want what I saw to be true, but...

If one finds oneself needing assistance when none was needed before, one must first divest him/herself of any belongings having any value whatsoever? We should only help you after you have made sure that you don't even have a car worth living in?

but typically its a result of off the books income, so they can still technically qualify for food stamps and housing assistance, etc. I've even had people offer to sell me their food stamps at half price for cash but neither situation is obviously in the majority.

That being said, to refuse to accept food stamps outright because you think pie shouldn't be covered is just a self-righteous d*ck move...I'm sure you agree. What's next, EBT covers bread and water only?

I'm amazed how it pisses people off so, I sh*t you not not a week goes by without a letter to the editor in the local paper with somebody b*tchin' about what the person on line in front of them bought with food stamps. With all the dollars getting scammed every damn day you're worried about 200 dollars a month in food stamps? I guess it's out of sight out of mind for the big scams.

...they stick their retirements into a system they know is gamed. What always ticks me off is when rich people figure out how to pick your pockets, it's innovation, hard work, and all that jazz. When the a poor person does it, people want them all the poor to suffer, even the kids, for the greed of a few.

'Cadillac driving welfare mommas' will always enrage certain folks far more than the Wall Street that just took half their retirement. Or maybe I should say, 'Late Model King-Cab Truck Kings', whom no one has any idea if they had anything to do with welfare or fraud.

But poor people, usually minorities, with shiny stuff is always suspect. "How dare they own stuff the rest of us own..." seems to be the thought.

When one people in twelve cannot find a job, what do they think is going to happen, they will magically produce food, clothing, and shelter ?

The republicans here can't spout off enough about the high unemployment rate, but then when it comes to the poor they act like that statistic is no longer valid, that they are all lazy, and if they wanted to work they could. Which one is it, it can't be both ?

I don't know what the poor's unemployment rate is, but I know it's higher then most, especially minorities. But people have to eat, they have to feed their children and the more you take away, is only more they will have to take. It's very simple, no one is going starve themselves to death, or their children so Paul Ryan can sleep better knowing his six figure salary pays even less taxes. They will figure out how to put some food on the table.

what the Paul Ryan's fail to realize is all the precious perks and protections they've carved out for themselves, using the law and the power of the state they claim to despise yet clamor to be a part of, is when societal order breaksdown the hungry masses will be busting the lock on their cupboards. Not enough cops or guns in the world to save 'em.

"Dem belly full but we hungry,
hungry mob is an angry mob."

The safety net they want to destroy does as much or more to protect them as the police, private security, their guns.

denied a request for a preliminary injunction against the state's voter ID law, sought by the ACLU of Pennsylvania, other groups, and various individuals who allege they will be disenfranchised.

The ACLU plans to appeal to PA's Supreme Court. It's thought as many as 10% of registered voters could lack an acceptable form of photo ID. That number may or may not include people whose photo ID have a complete middle name and voter registration has only a middle initial.

A meeting of county voting officials from all over the state is scheduled for a few weeks to clear up questions on exactly how the law will be enforced.

acted as a trial court -- this judge heard live witness evidence. He found that the number affected is "more than 1%" (the number pulled out of her ***hole by the PA Secretary of State), but not nearly as much as 9% (the number suggested by the ACLU's statistician). Even if it's "only" 3% of Pennsylvania's 8.2 million registered voters who presently lack one of the accepted forms of ID and thus are potentially disenfranchised by this law, though, the number is still near 250,000 people. No way can the state issue that many new IDs to those folks in the next three months, as the Governor blithely told the press they could do.

...woman can't feed needy children because, drum roll... she lives in a residential area and that's not allowed in the township. Never mind she get the meals from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia or that she's filed all the legal paperwork.LINK

And what's even more amazing, this is the third perfect game that was thrown in the major leagues this season -- and the second one thrown at Safeco Field. The Chicago White Sox's Philip Humber tossed one against the M's on April 21.

And when you consider the combined no-hitter that six M's pitchers threw against the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 8, that means that of the three of the six no-hitters in the major leagues thus far this season have occurred at Safeco Field.

Thanks to Jesse and BTD for the radio efforts. I don't usually hear all of David Waldman, I hear the last half of his show. Things are getting really ugly out there though, and for a variety of reasons getting to listen to the radio program daily has a soothing affect for me. I know it sounds strange, but I don't feel so alone when people get flat out vile about my political beliefs and what I argue for right now.